Walter Cronkite’s First Night As CBS News Anchorman

Walter Cronkite’s First Night As CBS News Anchorman

It was 6:45, Monday April 16, 1962 when Walter Cronkite delivered his first news cast as the new anchor of ‘The Evening Edition Of CBS News’. His new set was in Studio 41 at Grand Central which had also been where Douglas Edwards had delivered the news, but for many years, Edwards’ show was done from one of the four CBS studios ( #53, 54, 55 and 56) at Liederkrantz Hall. For several years after leaving the anchor chair on CBS, Edwards headed the evening news on WCBS-TV.

Edwards subsequently moved back to CBS Radio, where he delivered the network’s flagship evening newscasts ‘The World Tonight’ for many years. Until his retirement on April 1, 1988, he maintained at least a small role within CBS television news, anchoring a five-minute mid day newsbreak at 11:55. He also served for a time as a co-anchor of the ‘CBS Morning News’. His last radio newscast included a report of the death of singer Andy Gibb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZV2UDEG2A&ab_channel=CBSNews

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3 Comments

  1. Jim Grey March 5, 2014

    That was awesome.

  2. Al Wise March 4, 2014

    As much as I admired him for years, I lost respect for him the way he used his credibility to back stab our troops after they won a decisive victory in the Tet offensive in 1968

  3. Joanne DeSalvo Castelli March 4, 2014

    Fifty years ago it was ‘NEWS’. Now it is theater.